Lascivious Behavior

A Deltona man received 15 years' probation on Wednesday for performing lewd and lascivious acts in front of a child under age 16.Kip Allen Bower, 36, was sentenced before Circuit Judge Ed Sanders at the DeLand courthouse. Bower, who was arrested on March 17, pleaded no contest on Aug. 12.In addition to probation, Bower must participate in a therapy program for sex offenders and have no unsupervised contact with minors. Sanders also instructed him to pay for the victim's therapy.

DOVER, Florida — A Hillsborough County man is accused of calling 911 to ask for female deputies to respond to his home for sexual gratification. Jail records show Joshua Basso was arrested Friday on seven counts of making false 911 calls. The 32-year-old from Dover is being held on $3,500 bail. An attorney is not listed for him. A sheriff's office report says Basso admitted to deputies that he made the seven calls to 911 between Wednesday and Friday. He was arrested without incident.

EUSTIS - A 48-year-old man was arrested late Tuesday and charged with fondling himself in front of a 15-year-old girl, according to reports. Steven Dennis Francis of 301 Osceola Ave. was arrested about 11 p.m. after the girl told police Francis stood on his porch and fondled himself while she spoke with a friend nearby, police said. Earlier in the day, Eustis police met with the girl's mother. She told them four men living at the address made rude remarks to her daughter about her appearance.

Lake County deputy sheriffs arrested a man who they say thought he was going to have sex with a 14-year-old girl after making arrangements online with an undercover deputy, officials said. Robert Olson, 36, of Orlando was charged Thursday with traveling to meet with a minor for sex, lewd and lascivious behavior with a minor under 16 and soliciting the parent/guardian to have sex with their child. Sgt. Jim Vachon said Olson contacted a detective posing as the uncle of a 14-year-old girl online.

A man who pleaded guilty to lewd behavior with girls has been sentenced to 99 months in prison by Circuit Judge Mark Hill.Stephen C. Wilburth, 18, of Sorrento was charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior on a child younger than 16 and one count of attempted lewd and lascivious behavior for incidents that took place in December.According to court documents, Wilburth was charged with masturbating in front of one child, fondling another and fondling and assaulting the first child again.

TAVARES - A jury Tuesday convicted a Leesburg man of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child.Medford R. McCullough, 41, of 43 Michelle Ave. was sentenced to almost nine years in prison - 106 months - to be followed by five years of sex offender probation.McCullough testified, and so did his victim.

Circuit Judge Mark Hill has sentenced a man to 52 months in prison on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior in the presence of a child younger than 16.Paul D. Rickman, 20, of Eustis exposed himself and engaged in lewd acts at Eustis shopping centers, police said.

SARASOTA -- A couple who admitted to their minister that they had sex with a 13-year-old baby sitter were arrested after the minister informed the girl's family*,* who called authorities. Sarasota County deputies charged Adam and Denise Keenan with lewd and lascivious behavior.

CLERMONT -- Authorities arrested a Clermont woman Monday night and charged her with harassing two girls who had accused her son of molesting them. The woman, 37, was charged with two counts of tampering with a victim. She was released from Lake County Jail after posting $10,000 bail. On Oct. 10, her son, 14, was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior after his neighbor, 9, accused him of molesting her. He was taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center in Ocala and charged with an additional count of lewd and lascivious behavior after an 8-year-old told authorities that he molested her as well, according to a report.

A Eustis woman arrested in October for having sex in the parking lot of a Leesburg nightclub was sentenced Monday to two years' probation.Rebecca Lena Myers, 24, pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious behavior and criminal mischief. She also admitted to additional charges of battery of a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer without violence, but Lake Circuit Judge Jerry T. Lockett didn't find her formally guilty of those charges.Myers was arrested after Leesburg police officers spotted her and a man having sex outside Marty's Food and Spirit on U.S. Highway 441. When officers tried to separate the couple, Myers became violent, officers said.

An Osceola teacher who had been accused of kissing a student has been found guilty of lewd and lascivious behavior, according to WFTV.com. Francisco Santiago's trial features his word against the 9-year-old girl's according to the report. Read more here .

KISSIMMEE – An Osceola County couple remains held without bail on rape-related charges, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office. The investigation began Thursday and includes charges of sexual battery of a victim less than 12 years old, child abuse and lewd and lascivious behavior. The Orlando Sentinel is not identifying the suspects to protect the identity of the victim. Henry Pierson Curtis can be reached at 407-420-5257 or hcurtis@orlandosentinel.

Orlando police arrested a man at the Boca Club Apartments after witnesses said he was exposing himself to children in the community. Brucell James Brumfield, 44, who is homeless, was arrested on charges of indecent exposure in public and lewd and lascivious behavior. Orlando police responded to the apartment complex on CR Smith Road on Monday and talked to several people who said Brumfield had his pants down and exposed himself to children playing in the area. One witness told the officer Brumfield was in the courtyard with his pants around his ankles and told one child, "come here."

An Ormond Beach nudist-radio-station owner accused of raping a 16-year-old boy said this week he feels threatened by his alleged victim, the Daytona Beach News-Journal is reporting. Doug Wilhite, who was aquitted of sexually assualting the teen boy, told the newspaper he is "afraid of him." "I'm taking self-defense classes," Wilhite told the newspaper. Last week, Wilhite pleaded not guilty to 15 counts of lewd and lascivious behavior. To read the story, click here.

CLERMONT -- Authorities arrested a Clermont woman Monday night and charged her with harassing two girls who had accused her son of molesting them. The woman, 37, was charged with two counts of tampering with a victim. She was released from Lake County Jail after posting $10,000 bail. On Oct. 10, her son, 14, was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior after his neighbor, 9, accused him of molesting her. He was taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center in Ocala and charged with an additional count of lewd and lascivious behavior after an 8-year-old told authorities that he molested her as well, according to a report.

A former Kissimmee police officer pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery Thursday relating to a 15-year-old girl's complaint last year that he climbed on top of her in bed and kissed her neck and ear, a spokeswoman for the Seminole-Brevard State Attorney's Office said. Leo Martinez was arrested in October after the girl, a family friend, complained. He was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior by a person older than 18. Martinez, who lost his job of seven years because of the incident, was sentenced to pay court costs and undergo a psychosexual evaluation, said spokeswoman Lynne Bumpus-Hooper.

A Eustis man has been arrested on charges he had sex with a child.Henry F. Church, 53, of Purple Martin Road, was arrested Wednesday on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child and sexual battery when a young teen-ager told Lake County Sheriff's investigators that she had been abused several times over a six-month period.

NESS CITY, Kan. -- A man whose girlfriend sat on a toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body has been arrested in a separate case. Authorities say Kory McFarren was arrested Sunday on suspicion of alleged lewd and lascivious behavior. He allegedly exposed himself to a neighbor's teen daughter and her friends. He spent the night in jail before posting bond. No charges had been filed by Thursday.

NESS CITY, Kan. -- A man whose girlfriend sat on a toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body has been arrested in a separate case. Authorities say Kory McFarren was arrested Sunday on suspicion of alleged lewd and lascivious behavior. He allegedly exposed himself to a neighbor's teen daughter and her friends. He spent the night in jail before posting bond. No charges had been filed by Thursday.

LEESBURG -- Police nabbed a nude eye doctor from Ocala who offered money to two women in exchange for sex Saturday and then exposed and touched himself. The women called 911 to report the man's behavior, and authorities stayed on the phone with them during the Saturday afternoon incident. They pulled off U.S. Highway 441 and parked their car beside the doctor's Mercedes-Benz, according to a police report. That's when Michael P. Lange, 45, got out of his car naked and said he would give the women money for lifting their shirts while he fondled himself, the report read.